Preview Released of the 2017 NMC Horizon Report
I am continuously surprised how far behind too many academics are with respect to digital learning environments, strategies, innovations, and…
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American Higher Education in Crisis?: What Everyone Needs to Know®
A MUST READ Goldie Blumenstyk’s new book, American Higher Education in Crisis?, should be required reading for anyone interested in…
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014
Since 2007, Jane Hart has conducted a survey of the use of web based learning tools. She has published her results in a…
Faculty Increasing Use of Learner-Centered Education Practices
Faculty have steadily increased their use of Learner-Centered Pedagogies according to a comparison of faculty reported teaching and learning methods deployed…
Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology
The California School of Organizational Studies Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory, Skills, and Techniques November…
About Learning Styles
“There is no credible evidence that learning styles exist.”
New Study pinpoints hands not gaze as the object of parents’ and toddlers’ attention
IU cognitive scientists identify new mechanism at heart of early childhood learning and social behavior
Early childhood education: Children can tell when a teacher commits “sins of omission.”
Children learn a great deal about the world from their own exploration, but they also rely on what adults tell them. Studies have shown that children can figure out when someone is lying to them, but cognitive scientists from MIT recently tackled a subtler question: Can children tell when adults are telling them the truth, but not the whole truth?
Try, try again? Study says no
Neuroscientists find that trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language.
Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
This book by Daniel T. Willingham who earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Harvard University in 1990 and currently is…
